From the outside it looks like a supermarket, inside like an airport terminal.

Dec 4th, 2012

Max

I like it but it looks too monotonous, almost like a stasis chamber for books… then again that’s a library

Dec 4th, 2012

Niyari

Classic looking libraries are very enchanting, but it would be cool to incorporate a comfortable environment to it such as the seating here.

Dec 4th, 2012

Banaan

This is the most disturbing space that i have seen in a while. it looks like an airport or railway station whit moving staircases popping up everywhere and the reading benches look like solarium’s. They shouldn’t have designed it as a library.

Dec 4th, 2012

Dave

Looks like echoing would be a problem.
Open space is great, but sacrifices shelf space and potentially more books.
There are a lot of children pictured, is this a children’s library?
How does the lower level(s) look?

Dec 4th, 2012

Tansel

@Banaan, I could not have agreed with you more. The airport thing also went through my mind and the whole setting suggests people living in a very fast world. The clustered bookshelves are reminiscent of bookstores found in many shopping malls. I can’t imagine myself relaxed and being immersed in any deep reading in such a place. They should have worked out the library concept in the likeness of a grove.

Dec 5th, 2012

Max

To my the library feels more like a church than an airport, a bastion for the written word as some sorts. It’s clear the architects tried to re-invent the concept of a library, if they have succeeded only time will tell. Regardless libraries in general are doing really bad throughout Europe so new things have to be tried. They don’t draw in enough visitors and a lot of them are closing down because a combination of a lack of income and a lack of need.